Recent content by TexOk

Not 100% sure on this myself, but I know Empire Chestnut claims to sell seedlings from their Chinese x Allegheny Chinkapin crosses, AKA their "Wildlife Chestnuts." So maybe they do cross pollinate? I'm going to be trying a similar experiment with Chinese and Seguin, planting a single Seguin with...

Interesting thread, thanks dogghr. Ever since I spotted the first coyotes on our property I started looking more and more into ways of hunting and trapping them. But the more I research the more I find that efforts to get rid of them seem to be counterproductive in the long run. Historically...

Well Pinesap, I hope you had better luck than I did. I managed to hunt last weekend out of the ground blind. It was my first time to ever use a ground blind, and I have mixed feelings. It was more comfortable than my tree stand, both in sitting (had a comfy seat) and being sheilded from the...

Yep, SE Oklahoma, up in the hills. I love Texas but it's some really beautiful country up there. With the cold and wind in January I think that blind will be mighty tempting. Hopefully we'll both have some late season success! Berserker, it's nice and cold right now, but I'm sure nowhere near...

Thanks again for all the feedback guys. Awesome buck Sampson! So to update, this past weekend my dad was up at our property and I'd talked to him about the possibility of setting up the new blind for this coming weekend. However he got really sick while he was there and cut the trip short and...

I think Neahawg's right, planting just one grafted variety won't allow for pollination but as mentioned the AUs, Chinese and Dunstans should all cross pollinate. Empire Chestnuts has their "wildlife chestnut trees" which are supposed to be a hybrid of Chinese, Seguin, and Allegheny chinquapin...

Thanks guys, I was kind of leaning towards not hunting and now I'm definitely going to skip it. This particular spot has the deer coming in from the northeast, the east and the southeast, so any kind of westerly wind blows that spot. I was hoping the blind would help but I was worried about it...

So the only weekend I had available to hunt this month is coming up this weekend, and the forecast is showing the wrong wind the whole time. I bought a new pop ground blind last week, and was wondering how effective they are at containing your scent? I have a pretty extensive scent reduction...

One of my favorite things for keeping warm is my hand muff. Besides feet your hands are your other extremity most likely to get unbearably cold. Get you and the kiddo a nice camo hand muff and stick a hand warmer pouch in there, and you'll find yourself pulling your hands out from time to time...

An update on the food plot, unfortunately I haven't been able to go up there myself but had my dad and then later my brother go check it out and take some pics. These were taken two weeks ago. We've had a ton of rain come through for the month August so everything is very green and growing...

Hey Terrance, just wanted to add to the chorus of people that are glad to see you on here. I really enjoyed your thread on the other site since I'm going to be working on some land in East Texas as well. That's a bummer about the blight on the Dunstan though, hopefully that's just a one off for...

I got the seguins and the AU Buck chestnuts from the Wildlife Group.

Just another thought, Dunstans and Chinese chestnuts typically drop through September and maybe early October. Depending on when your hunting season starts (if this spot is designed for hunting) that might be a bit of an issue. For my chestnut hunting plot I also planted some AU Buck IIIs and...

Time for a few cam pics to top things off. First, one of my suspects for planting the corn: Dang crows live at my feeder. I literally get about a thousand crow pics every time I check that cam. I'm pretty stoked about these new visitors though! Not happy at all about these visitors though...

With that ridiculous bit of drama out of the way, now we just needed some rain. The 60% chance we had for the weekend we planted of course disappeared. A week went by, and then came the downpour, over two inches. Then again this weekend, another two inch downpour! My dad was up there and took...